Hapax legomena in the NT
Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2023 6:59 am
With many thanks to Mark Barnes, who provided this list back in 2013 on a different forum: https://community.logos.com/forums/t/66705.aspx
The document is attached - and huge
Naturally I'll argue that some of these come from Thomas (and I must immediately notice that I am missing ⲛⲩⲙⲫⲱⲛ, νυμφών), yet evidently most will come from Latin, and from creating Greek words based on Latin idiom. Some will be able to trace back to alleged Hebrew or Aramaic, and then what remains is the most challenging part
Will all these be from and by the hand of the Roman writers who composed / redacted the NT, and is none of them from the original texts? Thomas 104 would defy that rule, but then again he has a quite different version from what the Synoptics turn it into - and his is intelligible, whereas "children of the bridal chamber" doesn't even get translated like they by most bible translations. For good reasons, obviously
The document is attached - and huge
Naturally I'll argue that some of these come from Thomas (and I must immediately notice that I am missing ⲛⲩⲙⲫⲱⲛ, νυμφών), yet evidently most will come from Latin, and from creating Greek words based on Latin idiom. Some will be able to trace back to alleged Hebrew or Aramaic, and then what remains is the most challenging part
Will all these be from and by the hand of the Roman writers who composed / redacted the NT, and is none of them from the original texts? Thomas 104 would defy that rule, but then again he has a quite different version from what the Synoptics turn it into - and his is intelligible, whereas "children of the bridal chamber" doesn't even get translated like they by most bible translations. For good reasons, obviously